Three decades later, architect touts same site for new arena

Nearly 35 years ago, Saskatoon voters soundly rejected a proposal to build a new arena at a riverside location between Victoria Park and Idylwyld Drive.
Okanagan architect Gary Marvin thought citizens made a huge mistake in the 1985 referendum vote and he still thinks the same River Landing site represents the best location for a new arena.
Gary Marvin, an architect who led a campaign in the mid-1980s to locate a new arena on the site south of the Farmers’ Market, sits for a portrait by th